unimodal
- adjective
- /ˌjuːnɪˈmoʊdəl/
- Specialized
- In statistics, a unimodal distribution is defined by having one distinct maximum point.
- unimodal distribution
Examples
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The Background Elimination (BE) step is based on the Triangular histogram thresholding method, which has been successfully used in the past for unimodal histogram segmentation 39-41.
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The data collected resulted in a unimodal distribution, showing a clear peak in the responses.
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This area in human would include a lot of Mesalam's unimodal visual association cortex.
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They might be dominated by one sense, but they're not really unimodal association areas.
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Briefly, the primary sensory division consists of unimodal regions for processing visual, auditory, somatosensory, olfactory, and gustatory signals.
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The automatic ROI extraction is a combination of established unimodal thresholding concepts with a novel heuristic thresholding technique for noise reduction of binary images.
Academic text (2017) -
Mammalian and avian body skins generally contain relatively sharp unimodal distributions of fibril diameters consistent with a "passive" mechanical role.
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Researchers presented findings that indicated a unimodal pattern in the frequency of the observed behaviors.
Antonyms
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Etymology
Unimodal comes from uni- 'one' and modal from mode 'the most common value'. So a unimodal distribution has just one clear peak or most common point.